Description
Book SynopsisLooking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, this title theorizes a cultural history that illuminates the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders, where culture and capital crisscross - and in doing so, develops a new way of understanding historical change and transformation in modern Japan and beyond.
Trade Review“Cazdyn’s work is original, unique, and provocative. He asks hard questions, makes surprising connections, and as a result forces us to rethink the relationship of the aesthetic and the social in Japanese modernity.”—Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, author of
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema“This book redesigns the way in which Japanese cinema must be approached, taking into account the ‘longer term’ dynamics of economic formations as well as the way Japan is stitched into ‘global’ contemporary processes.”—Paul Willemen, author of
Looks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film TheoryTable of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Relation: Film, Capital, Transformation
II. Historiography: Nation, Narrative, Capital
III. Adaptation: Origin, Nation, Aesthetic
IV. Acting: Structure, Agent, Amateur
V. Pornography: Totality, Reality Culture, Films of History
VI. Re-reading: Canon, Body, Geopolitics
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
